A full stomach and a full stomach are the choices of life's instincts, and Li Chonglou also reacted.
"Makes sense, there should be a hidden mechanism here."
So Li Chonglou took another careful look around. This time, he indeed found an anomaly in a corner.
The soil elsewhere was normal, but here, the soil had a faint, unusual color. If one didn't look carefully, it would easily be overlooked in this environment.
When Li Chonglou came next to it, he discovered that it was actually a cloak whose color was basically the same as the surrounding soil.
"This thing, it seems to be a treasure?"
As Li Chonglou picked it up, a surge of spiritual energy rushed towards him, along with a green light.
"Is this the Heavenly Soul Grass?"
Although Li Chonglou had never seen it before, the surge of spiritual energy made him certain that this peculiar small grass, growing alone in a small pit, was the Heavenly Soul Grass he wanted!
Without the slightest hesitation, he dug it out directly and, using the cloak that covered it, wrapped it along with its roots and stuffed it into his embrace.
"Mission accomplished."
Li Chonglou grinned. This time, luck was finally on his side. Although there had been unexpected occurrences, the results were all good.
"Little Li, why don't you not rush to absorb it first?"
Elder An knew Li Chonglou's intentions. The previous Awen had said there were two methods to absorb the Heavenly Soul Grass. One was to return to the base, that is, the human camp, and ask specialized personnel to refine it into a pill. This way, the medicinal effect could be increased by at least three levels!
The other method was a relatively wasteful one: like the异兽母兽 (fierce beast mother), wait for it to mature and swallow it directly. The advantage of this was speed, but the effect obtained was less than three-tenths of its true medicinal effect, after all, humans and fierce beasts are different.
Li Chonglou's plan was the second method: find a safe place and swallow it directly.
So when Elder An spoke, Li Chonglou asked with some confusion, "Why? If I need to find someone, it might incur extra fees, and it will definitely cause delays in time. What if something else happens?"
In short, Li Chonglou was worried that delays would lead to changes.
However, Elder An had a different perspective.
"Little Li, seven days have already passed. If you take it directly, you might only recover to around five layers, at most six. Seven layers should be like three or five layers, also a watershed."
"But you're running out of time to hunt remnant souls. If you don't recover your strength first, do you really have to rely on Old Lin and the others all the time?"
Li Chonglou's expression froze. He really hadn't thought of this.
Yes, he still had to go back to discuss with Chen Pao and the others, and also report to the general bureau. Seven days had already passed, and he didn't have much time to find herbs to recover his soul injury.
After all, he still had to hunt remnant souls to supply Old Lin and the others.
And this Heavenly Soul Grass, whether it was from Hei Zi's side or the Little Knife team's side, was clearly targeted. Its medicinal effect could be imagined. It was truly a waste to directly consume such a good item now that he had this rare opportunity.
On the contrary, if its effect was really effective, it might also be an opportunity for him to directly recover his peak combat power!
This way, he wouldn't have to let Old Lin and the others consume resources, and he would also have to focus his energy on hunting remnant souls.
Thinking of this, Li Chonglou couldn't help but stroke his chin.
"If that's the case, the current problem is, how long will it take to refine this pill?"
Elder An directly said, "No matter how long, it won't be more than a year and a half. I estimate it will take at most ten days to half a month, perhaps only a few days, or even less than a day. Anyway, I think you can afford to wait this long, and you can use this time to go to the general bureau."
"At the general bureau, you won't need such strong strength to consider self-preservation, right?"
Li Chonglou's eyes lit up. It seemed to be the truth!
After all, after he went out, he still had to stay at the general bureau for a while to avoid the limelight of the Civilian Association. It was hard to say elsewhere, but as a member of the Dragon Team, even within the general bureau, no matter how unhappy they were, they wouldn't dare to kill him, right!
Thinking this way, he really had time to wait.
"In that case, I'll keep it for now."
Patting the dirt that had accidentally gotten on his hands, Li Chonglou's gaze quickly fell on the corpses of Lie Dao and the others.
Killing people and robbing goods, this was the fastest way to develop. Although he wasn't the instigator, picking up the spoils was a good thing.
Li Chonglou smiled and thoroughly searched the belongings of everyone, including Hei Zi's. Then he simply tidied up the scene, dealt with everyone's corpses, and quickly left the cave.
Of course, when he came out, he first made sure to be vigilant before leaving, to avoid making some low-level mistakes and losing his own life.
After finding a safe place, Li Chonglou organized the salvaged items.
First were the weapons of the Little Knife team members. These were almost buried in the ground without a second thought. If these things were taken back and sold, or if someone else discovered them, even a child could imagine the consequences!
Besides weapons, there were also some things that could prove their identities.
As he buried them, what was left for Li Chonglou from the Little Knife team were their功石 (merit stones), supply medicines, and more than thirty blood crystals.
In Li Chonglou's opinion, these thirty-odd blood crystals alone were worth it. He originally thought that everyone had used their money to buy supplies, but he didn't expect so many hidden stashes.
Then it was Hei Zi's side. The weapons could be taken away generously, but there were too many. He could only choose some that were easy to carry and more valuable and put them into another Hei Zi's personal bag.
The rest were some items that he couldn't tell if they were useful. These were also present on Lie Dao and the others, but for the Little Knife team, Li Chonglou kept nothing, burying them all.
As for blood crystals, Li Chonglou only then learned that Hei Zi's side also used this currency. He found about a hundred of them on his person!
"We're rich, we're really rich this time!"
Li Chonglou's smile was so wide that his mouth almost reached the back of his ears. However, a greater surprise was yet to come.
When he tried to see if he could absorb the remnant souls in the Little Knife team's merit stones together, he instantly absorbed all the remnant souls from Lie Dao's merit stone!
"I was worried that it had to be operated by the person themselves, but it turns out I was overthinking it."
This surprise was even greater than the blood crystals. Although the remnant souls hunted in the past seven days were not as many as the fierce beasts he killed last time, it was still a large amount of supply! At least with this supply, he no longer needed to worry about the energy issues of Old Lin and the others for the time being!